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What We’re Reading: 20,000 Salmon Return to the Klamath River

Reasons to Be Cheerful 2026-09-16

Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at [email protected] and we just might feature it here. Swimming upstream 20,000: That’s how many chinook salmon have migrated up the Klamath River, which flows through southern Oregon and northern California, in the two years since four dams were removed. This impressive number comes from a new study that Inside Climate News reported on in a story shared by Cont

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